Dirt Road Blues
Unusually for Dylan, Dirt Road Blues demands to be seen not as a stand alone song but in the context[…]
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Unusually for Dylan, Dirt Road Blues demands to be seen not as a stand alone song but in the context[…]
Read moreby Tony Attwood This review updated 23 Feb 2018, correcting a mistaken historical reference and adding a link to the[…]
Read moreReview by Tony Attwood, updated August 2018. In this review I’ve given a couple of live versions of the song[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Updated 12 Sep 17 It has taken me a long old time to get here, but a[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood This was the second review I wrote of “It takes a lot to laugh”. Indeed over time[…]
Read moreDay of the Locusts We know a fair amount the day of the Locusts from David Crosby’s commentary about how[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood This article updated 6 Spetember 2019. Although there is little musical connection between “Honest with Me” from[…]
Read moreDylan’s “High Water (For Charley Patton)” is based on three chords but in effect two of the three chords are[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood This review updated July 2018, with help from Larry Fyffe, and it now includes links to two[…]
Read moreTweedledum and Tweedledee are characters in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There a book which I was[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Just how surreal do you want to be? Just how far can the three major chords that[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood In one sense all you need to know is that Highway 61 is the Blues Highway. But[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues” is a strophic classic blues which takes the 12 bar structure and[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood It is not my job to summarize the commentaries from elsewhere about how this song has been[…]
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